Update: Huge Barrier Isn't Trapping Plastic Waste Matter Inwards Pacific Ocean

Crap.
If things had gone equally planned one-half the floating plastic inwards the Pacific was supposed to live removed inwards 5 years.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 floating device sent to corral a swirling isle of trash betwixt California in addition to Hawaii has non swept upwards whatsoever plastic waste materials — but the immature innovator behind the projection said Mon that a create was inwards the works.

Boyan Slat, 24, who launched the Pacific Ocean cleanup project, said the speed of the solar-powered barrier isn't allowing it to concord on to the plastic it catches.

"Sometimes the scheme truly moves slightly slower than the plastic, which of course of education you lot don't desire because therefore you lot accept a run a endangerment of losing the plastic again," Slat said inwards an interview alongside The Associated Press.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 crew of engineers volition make the U-shaped nail Tuesday in addition to volition operate for the adjacent few weeks to widen its bridge therefore that it catches to a greater extent than air current in addition to waves to assist it popular off faster, he said.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 send towed the 2,000-foot-long (600-meter-long) barrier inwards September from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an isle of trash twice the size of Texas. It has been inwards house since the destination of October, Slat said.

The plastic barrier alongside a tapered 10-foot-deep (3-meter-deep) covert is intended to human action similar a coastline, trapping only about of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that scientists gauge are swirling inwards the patch patch allowing marine life to safely swim beneath it.

Slat said he is non deterred past times the setback because engineers expected to brand tweaks to the system.
"What we're trying to create has never been done before. So, of course of education nosotros were expecting to even therefore take to create a few things earlier it becomes fully operational," he said of the scheme created past times the Ocean Cleanup, an scheme he founded....MORE

Previously:
Oct. 3
The Ocean Cleanup Completes Testing Regime, On to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Sept. 25 
Maersk-backed TheOceanCleanup Puts Its System to Final Tests
Sept. 10 
Maersk-backed TheOceanCleanup Have Launched their Contraption to Clear the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'
July 2016 
Dutch Deploy Boomy McBoomface